The Routledge Handbook of Global Islam and Consumer Culture / edited by Birgit Krawietz and François Gauthier.

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English
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First edition.
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  • Abingdon, England ; New York : Routledge, [2025]
  • ©2025
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This inter- and trans-disciplinary Handbook includes 35 original chapters which explore vibrant debates around the interrelationship between global Islam and consumer culture, and is essential reading for students and researchers in Islamic studies, Near and Middle Eastern studies, religious studies, and cultural studies.
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Includes index.
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Contents
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: For a Starter
  • Part 1 Guiding Frameworks of Understanding
  • 1 Religion and Market Logic: Fashioning Muslims as Consumers
  • 2 Malaysia and the Rise of Muslim Consumer Culture
  • 3 Baraka: From Being Well to Well-being
  • 4 From Market Islam to the Halal Boom
  • Part 2 Historical Probes
  • 5 The Day of Surplus: On the Market in Paradise
  • 6 The Abbasid Capital Baghdad as a Boom Town, Trade Hub, and Stage of Consumption
  • 7 Caravanserais and Khans as Commercial Architecture: Accommodating Long-Distance Travelers in West Asia
  • 8 Circulation of Ideas and Capital: The Arabic Islamic Modernist Periodical al-Manar (1898-1935) and the Bombay Mercantile Communities
  • 9 Goods and Gaiety in a Turkish Black Sea Town: Oral History of Women in Tirebolu
  • Part 3 Urbanism and Consumption
  • 10 (Neo-)Liberal Transformations of Tangier's Waterfront: From Trade and Transport to Leisure and Pleasure
  • 11 Labor Migration Control and Asymmetrical Dependency in the Arab Gulf: In-Country Sponsorship (kafāla) in Qatar
  • 12 Capital, Crisis, and Cultural Heritage: The Central Business District of Beirut in Times of Neoliberalism
  • 13 The Making of Modern Halal Space: Sharia-Compliant Hotels in Urban Malaysia and Indonesia
  • 14 To Be a Muslim 'Winner' in Kazakhstan: Lifestylization of Islam in Hyperconsumerized Astana
  • Part 4 Body Manipulation, Vestiary Regimes, and Gender
  • 15 Inspiration as Worship: Creativity, Circulation, and Divinity in the Indonesian Modest Fashion Scene
  • 16 Circuits of Consumption, Desire, and Piety: Seeing and Being Seen in Veiling Fashion.
  • 17 Gendered Spaces of Consumption in Saudi Arabia: Sociability and Segregation in the City of Jeddah in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries
  • 18 Muslim Discussions about Tattooing as Body Modification
  • 19 Modern Fatwas on Smoking
  • Part 5 Mediated Religion and Culture
  • 20 Artful Quran Recitation (tajwīd) in Learning, Broadcasting, and Competitive Environments
  • 21 The Nigerian Cinema Industry of Kannywood: Competing Views on Being Muslim
  • 22 Ghostbusters in Jordan: Popular Religion Meets Netflix Teenage Drama in Jinn (2019)
  • 23 Joining the German Salafist Ibrahim al-Azzazi on TikTok
  • 24 Islamic Heritage at the Aga Khan Museum Shop: Transcultural Crafts and Contemporary Art as Conspicuous Cosmopolitanism
  • Part 6 Consumer Culture, Lifestyle, and Senses of the Self through Consumption
  • 25 The Celebration of Islamic Consumer Goods in London: Design, Production, and Consumption
  • 26 Boosting Modern Muslim Subjectivities through Capitalist Consumption and Consumer Culture
  • 27 Muslim Comedy: From Social Purpose to the Consumption of Culture
  • 28 Differing Ethical Approaches to Frugality and Consumption of Modest Fashion
  • 29 Mediated Consumerism among Salar Muslim Women in Northwest China: Circumventing Marital Disobedience via WeChat
  • Part 7 Markets
  • 30 The Creation of Islamic Finance: Religious Conservatism, Capitalist Logics, and Secularization
  • 31 Lateral Collaboration: Exploring Financial Expertise in Malaysia
  • 32 Representations of the Tribal-Modern Self on Qatari Banknotes
  • 33 Islam and Islamism in the Face of Neoliberalism: The Case of the Justice and Development Party in Morocco
  • 34 State, Market, and Islamist Political Imagination in Pakistan and Beyond
  • Index.
ISBN
  • 1-003-83029-3
  • 1-003-15271-6
  • 1-003-83023-4
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